Cohort profile: the Adverse Childhood Experiences cohort of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health is a dataset published in BMJ Open (2024). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.165, placing it in the top 70.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 2 times, with 1 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 70% for downstream scientific impact
Linked data & code
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FAIR checklist signals are shown for context only and do not affect DataRank scoring.
Full FAIR picture · advisory
The headline score is computed from the scored criteria — the fact-shaped checks (a repository, an accession, a licence) that two independent models agree on. The advisory criteria below are real FAIR guidance but rest on judgment calls that models read differently, so they inform without moving the number.
No persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, repository accession) is given for the MLSFH-ACE data.
RDA-F1-01D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a persistent identifier' (priorit · RDA-F1-02D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a globally unique identifier' · FsF-F1-02D — F-UJI/FAIRsFAIR: 'Data is assigned a persistent identifier'
“An anonymised public-use version of the MLSFH-ACE data is being prepared for release via the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.”
The paper names ICPSR, a data repository listed in re3data, as the holder of the future public-use data.
RDA-F4-01M — FAIR Data Maturity Model: metadata is offered so it can be harvested and indexed ( · NIH DMS Policy Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — name the repository where data will be archived · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Long-Term Sustainability', 'Reten
No identifier or link for the MLSFH-ACE dataset appears in the reference list or body text.
FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (2014) — data should be cited as a first- · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes · FsF-F3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes the identifier of the data it describes'
Advisory · not in the published score
“Data are available upon reasonable request. An anonymised public-use version of the MLSFH-ACE data is being prepared for release via the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.”
The statement offers a request-based route (Colavizza category 1) and mentions a future repository release, but does not currently point to an archived dataset.
Colavizza, Hrynaszkiewicz, Staden, Whitaker & McGillivray (2020), 'The citation advantage of li · Springer Nature research data policy — Data Availability Statements: standard statement templat · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes
“The MLSFH-ACE relied on a combination of newly developed and previously validated survey instruments (table 2).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Table 2 provides an itemised inventory of the dataset's measurements and constructs. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F2-01M — 'Rich metadata is provided to allow discovery' (priority Essential) · FsF-F2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes descriptive core elements to support data findability' · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data'
“Data are available upon reasonable request.”
The only stated route to the data is a discretionary personal request, which is not a followable access process with no precondition.
RDA-A1.1-01D — 'Data is accessible through a free access protocol' · FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Free and Easy Access'
Advisory · not in the published score
“Data are available upon reasonable request.”
The paper describes an access action ('available upon reasonable request') but does not apply an explicit COAR-compliant access-level label to the data.
FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · RDA-A1-01M — metadata contains information to enable the user to get access to the data · COAR Controlled Vocabularies — Access Rights v1.0 (open / embargoed / restricted / metadata-onl
“Data are available upon reasonable request.”
The paper names only the authors as the gatekeeper for the data, not an institutional committee or controlled-access repository. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy (NOT-OD-14-124) — controlled-access via a Data Access Committee · RDA-A1.2-01D — 'Data is accessible through an access protocol that supports authentication and · NIH DMS Policy Element 5 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Access, Distribution, or Reuse Considerations (conse
No sentence states when the data become available or how long they persist; 'being prepared for release' gives no timing or retention. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
NIH DMS Plan Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Data Preservation, Access, and Associated Timelines · NSTC Desirable Characteristics (2022), Organizational Infrastructure: 'Retention Policy' · RDA-A2-01M — 'Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data is no longer available'
No file format is named for the released data; the text describes only 'survey data, health measures, and HIV status' without specifying a format.
FsF-R1.3-02D — F-UJI: 'Data is available in a file format recommended by the target research co · RDA-R1.3-02D — data is expressed in a machine-understandable community standard · RDA-I1-01D — data uses a knowledge representation expressed in a standardised format
Advisory · not in the published score
“WHO Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ)”
The ACE-IQ is a standardised, FAIRsharing-registered instrument for measuring adverse childhood experiences. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1.3-01M — 'Metadata complies with a community standard' (priority Essential) · RDA-R1.3-01D — 'Data complies with a community standard' · RDA-I2-01M — '(Meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles'
No identifier (accession, DOI, RRID, assembly ID) is given for any external resource that the data depend on or derive from.
RDA-I3-01M — '(meta)data include references to other (meta)data' · RDA-I3-03M — 'metadata includes qualified references to other metadata' · FsF-I3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes links between the data and its related entities'
No reuse licence, Data Use Agreement, or terms document is named for the data; the article's CC BY-NC licence applies to the article, not the data.
RDA-R1.1-01M — 'Metadata includes information about the licence under which the data can be reu · RDA-R1.1-02M — 'Metadata refers to a standard reuse licence' · RDA-R1.1-03M — 'Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse licence'
No version token, release name, or date is given to identify a specific snapshot of the data. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 passes agreed)]
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — the 'Version' property · RDA-R1.2-01M — provenance information (which version was used is provenance) · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Provenance', 'Retention Policy'
No code availability is mentioned; the study's own analysis code is not provided or located anywhere.
NIH DMS Policy Element 2 (NOT-OD-21-014) — 'Related Tools, Software and/or Code' · FAIR4RS Principles v1.0 (Chue Hong et al., 2022; RDA/FORCE11/ReSA) — FAIR Principles for Resear · FORCE11 Software Citation Principles (Smith, Katz & Niemeyer, 2016, PeerJ CS 2:e86)
“under Award Numbers R01HD090988”
The paper provides an award number (R01HD090988) attached to a named funder (NIH).
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — 'FundingReference' property (funderName, funderIdentifier, award · Crossref Funder Registry — canonical funder identifiers for funding metadata · RDA-F2-01M — rich metadata provided to allow discovery (funding is part of the descriptive reco
Advisory · not in the published score
“The MLSFH-ACE relied on a combination of newly developed and previously validated survey instruments (table 2). It is one of the first studies to systematically measure ACEs among adolescents in a high HIV prevalence context using the WHO Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific instruments, questionnaires, and kits used to produce the data (e.g., WHO ACE-IQ, Beck Depression Inventory, CRAFFT). [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1.2-01M — 'Metadata includes provenance information according to community- specific standa · FsF-R1.2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes provenance information about data creation or generati · W3C PROV-O (W3C Recommendation, 2013) — the entity/activity/agent model of provenance
“Table 2 Selected MLSFH-ACE measurements”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article (Table 2), but no separate documentation object (e.g., README, codebook) is said to accompany the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1-01M — '(Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attribu · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data' · NIH DMS Policy Element 3 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Standards (documentation and metadata to accompany t
Calibrated FAIR score — a parallel quality metric, independent of the DataRank citation score. See the full evaluation →
Base Score Contribution
0.165
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0
From 0 citing papers with measurable signal
This paper's DataRank is currently driven only by its base citation score. None of the citing papers had measurable citation signal.
Learn more about DataRank methodology →Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Grant: R01HD090988
NICHD
Grant: R01 HD087391
NICHD
Grant: R01HD053781
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01HD090988-01
Adverse childhood experiences and adolescent HIV risk: Causal inferences from a high HIV prevalence context
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01HD087391-05
Surviving an Epidemic: Families and Well-Being, Malawi 1998-2020
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01HD053781-05
Consequences of High Morbidity and Mortality in a Low-Income Country
FWCI
1.91
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
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